Category: Civil Liberties

• The United States and the Japanese Internment

  This theory argues that the wartime incarceration of Japanese Americans was framed or even designed as a form of protective custody intended to shield them from mob violence, vigilante attack, or a wider anti-Japanese pogrom on the U.S. West Coast. It takes real anti-Japanese hostility and documented fears of violence and reinterprets internment not primarily as exclusion and racialized confinement, but as a preemptive state quarantine against mass bloodshed.